Android Question String returned by Spinner - char added

[verolet]

For information, the string returned by the SelectedItem function when you select an item in a Spinner (previously filled with a .txt file UTF8 encoded) has a particularity : a char is automaticaly added at the beginning of the string (ASCII code 63 - ?).
This char doesn't appear (in debugger for example), but it's here (string lenght is +1) and made unable string comparaison.
You must remove this char with simple :
txt = txt.SubString(1)

 

[Erel]

This is incorrect. Can you upload the text file?

 

[verolet]

Of course.
I've re-encoded the SelectedItem in ASCII to view the "invisible" first char, but before that, i'm sure that the length is +1.

 

[Erel]

Your file is encoded in UTF8 with BOM (byte order mark). You should encode it in UTF8 without BOM or skip the three first bytes.

 

[verolet]

Ok thanks. Could probably interest someone else...